Thanksgiving quiz 2
When I lived in Davis and when we were entertaining friends and family at Thanksgiving I would always try to entertain our guests with a postprandial quiz of my own devising. I would wait until the guests had eaten their fill in order to ensure their near-comatose state forbids them an easy escape.
In this quiz, all of the questions are in the style of cryptic crossword clues. The answers can all be made from the letters in the word 'Thanksgiving'. Some examples…
Clue: I just rescued one of King Arthurs minions from danger (6, 6) Anwser: saving knight
Clue: I have a list of 7 things: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. If you had to remove one of those things from the list, what would you be doing? (6, 3) Answer: taking sin
Clue: An unforgettable singer without any Cole? (3, 4) Answer: Nat King
Okay so now on to the real questions. Scroll down for answers…
- People who have this are easily insulted, and are also very easy to give injections to (4, 4)
- As soon as we get a lot of snow, I'm going to Lake Tahoe and I expect I'll suffer from too much exposure to the sun. What will I be getting? (3, 3)
- Someone has just acquired another possession (5, 5)
- About a thousand years ago, a gentleman from Scandinavia may have worn this on his head (6, 3)
- Someone is contemplating about getting older (6, 5)
- I get very nervous and agitated about the prospect of going on long walks in the countryside (6, 5)
- I'm in possession of a rather noxious odor (6, 5)
- What might you call nitrous oxide if – in addition to making you laugh – it made you contemplate and consider the mysteries of life? (8, 3)
- One thousand grams has just disappeared (9, 2)
- If an actor from the film Apollo 13 started making an alcoholic beverage using juniper berries, what might he put on the bottle? (1, 5, 3) – requires 2 punctuation characters
Answers
- thin skin
- ski tan
- gains thing
- viking hat
- thinks aging
- hiking angst
- having stink
- thinking gas
- vanishing kg
- T. Hank's Gin